365 Days

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365 Days
Basically Fifty Shades of Grey, but even more crappier...
Genre: Romance Drama Directed By: Barbara Białowąs Tomasz Mandes Produced By: Maciej Kawulski Ewa Lewandowska Tomasz Mandes Written By/Screenplay: Tomasz Klimala Barbara Białowąs Tomasz Mandes Blanka Lipińska Based On: 365 Dni (book) by Blanka Lipińska Starring: Anna-Maria Sieklucka Michele Morrone Bronisław Wrocławski Otar Saralidze Magdalena Lamparska Natasza Urbańska Distributed By: Next Film Release Date: 7 February 2020 (Poland) 7 June 2020 (Netflix) Runtime: 114 minutes Country: Poland Language: Polish English Italian Box Office: $9.5 million

365 Days (Polish: 365 Dni) is a 2020 Polish erotic romantic drama film directed by Barbara Białowąs and Tomasz Mandes. It is based on a novel by Blanka Lipińska.

Plot

A young woman from Warsaw is kidnapped by a dominant Sicilian mafia leader, who imprisons her and imposes on her a period of 365 days in which to fall in love with him.

Why It Sucks 365 Times

1. It's an even-crappier version, if not, also a blatant rip-off of an already bad film Fifty Shades of Grey, as both films (along with the novels that they're based on) are a sexual wish-fulfillment fantasy.
2. Just like Fifty Shades of Grey, it romanticizes kidnapping, submissiveness, and abuse.
3. The characters are all unlikable due to their violent and sex-obsessed attitudes.
4. In a lot of scenes, usually where there's some kind of conflict, the camera will suddenly cut to a later period where it's been resolved, which feels like a lazy excuse not to do any extra filming/writing.
5. Parts of the movie are slow and drag on.
6. The Movie's poster looks disgusting and highly inappropriate.
7. The movie is loaded with cliches.
8. There's not much of a plot beyond sex and abuse.
9. Since the actors spoke English as a second language, some of the dialogue comes off as weird.
10. Cheesy and cringe-worthy dialogue, like "Are you lost, baby girl?".
11. Unfitting soundtrack.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Some of the scenes are unintentionally cheesy and funny.
2. It was at least successful with its target audience.
3. The cinematography is at least okay.

Reception

Despite the film's popularity, it was heavily panned by critics and viewers alike, with criticism focusing on its glorification of abuse. It holds a 0% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Argentine critic Alejandro Turdó panned the film on a YouTube review, stating: "It's a bizarre mix of The Room, Fifty Shades of Grey and Beauty and the Beast, but combining it all in the worst possible way. (...) Some sites estimate that it could be Netflix's most watched film of the year, and that's where I start getting a bit scared, because I think that ironic viewing is getting out of hand. We're giving too much attention to truly disastrous productions." He gave 365 Days zero stars out of five, noting that it was the first ever movie to get such a low score from him.

Peter Canavese of Celluloid Dreams said that the film is "strictly for those wondering, what would a straight up ripoff of Fifty Shades of Grey look like if it were made in Poland?"

It became the first Polish film, first Netflix film, and the first film of the 2020s to be featured on Wikipedia's " List of films considered the worst " page.

Awards and nominations

365 Days was nominated for six Razzie Awards, including Worst Picture, and won one for Worst Screenplay.

Trivia

1) For the infamous plane blowjob scene, author Blanka Lipińska said that she offered to perform the scene herself as the flight attendant because of the scene's controversy. The production company declined and hired an actress instead.

2) Despite the negative reception, the film was very popular and was one of the top 10 most watched titles in many countries during release.

External Links

• 365 Days at the Internet Movie Database
• 365 Days on Rotten Tomatoes

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